Fiji

Crimes Decree 2009 (decree No. 44 of 2009)

CHAPTER III — CRIMINAL OFFENCES

PART 12 — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERNATIONAL ORDER

Division 2 — Genocide

Genocide by forcibly transferring children

81.— (1) A person (the perpetrator) commits an indictable offence if—

(a) the perpetrator forcibly transfers one or more persons ; and
(b) the person or persons belong to a particular national, ethnical, racial or religious group ; and
(c) the perpetrator intends to destroy, in whole or in part, that national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such ; and
(d) the transfer is from that group to another national, ethnical, racial or religious group ; and
(e) the person or persons are under the age of 18 years ; and
(f) the perpetrator knows that, or is reckless as to whether, the person or persons are under that age.

Penalty — Imprisonment for life.

Keywords

National penalties - genocide
National penalties - life imprisonment



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